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Experimental Economics
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ec3088
Module code: EC3088 All scientific disciplines require systematic and rigorous experiments in order to make observations about the world around us and economics is no different.
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Pichia Pastoris
https://le.ac.uk/mcb/facilities-and-technologies/protex/available-vectors/pichia-pastoris
vectors available for expression in p.pastoris
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What the bones can't tell us
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/what-bones-cant-tell-us
We can tell the age, height and build of Richard III from the skeleton but the details of the injuries is based on knowledge of medieval weapons, armour and battles as well as on the bones themselves.
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Student scores opportunity to represent her sport internationally
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/student-scores-opportunity-to-represent-her-sport-internationally
One Leicester student has recently been informed that she was successful in securing a place on the England U21 Nets Netball player long list for the 2019 World Cup. Nets is a variation of netball that is fast, non-stop and very tactical.
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Evelyn Waugh project will be ‘one of the great monuments of twenty-first century literary scholarship’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/17-evelyn-waugh-praise
Praise from Times Literary Supplement for University of Leicester project to publish novelist Evelyn Waugh's entire output.
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Munashe tackles the competition to join England Universities Rugby Team
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/munashe-tackles-the-competition-to-join-england-universities-rugby-team-1
MChem student and athlete Munashe Fumhanda has expressed his excitement at being selected to join the England Universities Rugby League team. Munashe started playing rugby at around the age of 8, which eventually led to him representing South Yorkshire competitively.
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Free public talk on climate change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/18-climate-change-talk
Climate/atmospheric scientist Katherine Hayhoe famously said that the most important thing you can do (right now) to fight climate change is to talk about it.
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Literary Leicester proves popular once again
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/literary-leicester-proves-popular-once-again
Over 3000 people attended an event at the University’s Literary Leicester Festival this year, with great feedback from audiences that travelled to the campus and around the city to take part in our annual celebration of the written word.
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First delivery to our University of high-tech glass plates to be used to discover the birth of new black holes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/first-delivery-to-our-university-of-high-tech-glass-plates-to-be-used-to-discover-the-birth-of-new-black-holes
Our University is providing a new type of X-ray mirror to the French space agency, CNES, for the Chinese-French satellite ‘SVOM’ which is designed to discover and study Gamma-Ray Bursts from newly formed black holes.
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Leicester fans produce biggest Vardyquake
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-fans-produce-biggest-vardyquake
Fans at Leicester City's final home game of the season against Everton caused the biggest earth tremors recorded at the ground.